Parliament Alexa Skill Matthew Rayner
 @mattrayner

What’s an Alexa Skill?

What’s an Alexa Skill?

What’s an Alexa Skill? ‘Alexa is Amazon’s voice service and the brain behind millions of devices including the Amazon Echo. Alexa provides capabilities, or skills, that enable customers to create a more personalized experience. There are now more than 12,000 skills from companies like Starbucks, Uber, and Capital One as well as innovative designers and developers.’

What does the Parliament skill currently do?

What does the Parliament skill currently do?

What does the Parliament skill currently do? 1.

Allows the user to get an overview of what’s on at the Houses of Parliament from calendar.parliament.uk.

2.

Asks the user if they’d like to hear more.

3.

In theory: Reads out an in-depth list of the events

Demo of DOOM! (I genuinely hope this works)

Next steps

Thanks! @mattrayner https://github.com/mattrayner/alexa-parliament